Bowel surgery

Question 1

What is a bowel resection?

Answer 1

Removing parts of the small intestine, large intestine or both

Question 2

Why is a bowel resection performed?

Answer 2

cancer
bowel obstruction
debunking
inflammatory bowel disease

Question 3

What is your bowel?

Answer 3

Part of the digestive system, connecting your stomach to your anus. Consists of the small and large intestine. Small intestine absorbs the nutrients from what we eat. The large intestine absorbs the water from waste and creates a stool.

Question 4

Types of bowel surgery

Answer 4

segmental small bowel resection

Question 5

Segmental small bowel resection

Answer 5

removes part of the small intestine used to remove tumours
some of the mesentery (small fold of tissue that supports the small intestine and lymph nodes in the area may also be removed

Question 6

Right Hemilocetomy

Answer 6

A right hemicolectomy is used to remove tumours in the right colon, including the cecum and ascending colon. It may also be done to remove tumours of the appendix.

An extended right hemicolectomy removes all of the transverse colon. It may be done to remove tumours in the hepatic flexure or transverse colon.

Question 7

Transverse colectomy

Answer 7

This is used to remove a tumour and removes the transverse colon

Question 8

left hemilocetomy

Answer 8

A left hemicolectomy removes:

part of the transverse colon
the splenic flexure (the bend in the colon near the spleen)
the descending colon
part of the sigmoid colon

Question 9

Sigmoid colectomy

Answer 9

used to remove tumours in the sigmoid colon

Question 10

Low anterior resection

Answer 10

used to remove tumours of the sigmoid colon and the rectum and the anus

Question 11

Proctocolectomy with colonial anastomosis

Answer 11

removes part of the sigmoid colon and the whole of the rectum
colonial anastomosis joins the remaining colon to the anus

Question 12

Abdominoperineal resection

Answer 12

removes the rectum, anus, anal spnichter and the muscles around the anus
it is used to remove tumours that are close to the anus or have grown into the muscles around the anus

Question 13

Colectomy

Answer 13

removes part or all of the colon

Question 14

Subtotal or partial colectomy

Answer 14

most of the colon is removed

Question 15

Total colectomy

Answer 15

if all of the colon is removed, including the cecum and the appendix

Question 16

colostomy

Answer 16

A surgical procedure whereby a stoma is created from the colon to the outside of the body through the abdominal wall. Providing a path for the waste to leave the body after part of the colon or rectum is removed.